Aging and mental health Construction Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 15, 2023
In that moment, in that mental-ward room alone, I felt I was the helpless target and it was my enemy bent on my destruction. Scuffling whispers echoing in the hall and in my brain halted, followed by a brief but sacred silence. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. I now stammered.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 23, 2023
S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. Prompted by a last-minute invitation, I recently traveled to the 13 th Compassionate Mental Health retreat in Coed Hills, Wales. Cabins at the Coed Hills retreat.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. Today, 65 million Americans are on one or more prescribed psychiatric medications.
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